“I do know that the new acting Seattle police chief, Sue Rahr, is promoting this every week,” Lovick said recently. “I know they’re promoting it in the Tri-Cities [and] there was interest in other agencies, but it’s just a matter of people seeing that now they have the opportunity to do this.”
Victor Manuel Arzate, from Mexico, is one Dreamer who didn’t know he had this opportunity.
Arzate grew up being mentored by Pasco police. He says officers were a huge part of his life, always keeping him out of trouble — “the healthy kind of trouble,” he clarifies.
He knew he wanted to be an officer, and remembers how
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